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Antibodies or immunoglobulins are sequestered in all vertebrates. Of them, camelids, nurse sharks, and spotted ratfish have been found to possess structurally different kinds of antibodies.
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Ray Banerjee, E. (2016). Development of a Novel Format of Stable Single-Chain Antibodies Against Alkaline Phosphatase as Therapeutic Molecules. In: Perspectives in Translational Research in Life Sciences and Biomedicine. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0989-1_10
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